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GIVE:
Presbyterians
are asking how to get money to Presbyterian Disaster Assistance
for Haiti relief. Financial support for relief efforts can
be designated to Account DR000064 - Haiti Relief. Send your
gifts to your church. They will be recorded as a contribution,
and sent directly to PDA. Your gift, combined with others,
provides a visible and tangible demonstration of God's care
in the midst of this tragedy. Recovery will be a difficult
and long process - one that Presbyterian Disaster Assistance
has proven to be faithful through the long haul.
ACT:
Stay informed <www.pcusa.org/pda/>
and share information on the need with others. Sign-up to
receive PDA-RIN email notices to alert you of additional needs.
Consider making Gift of the Heart hygiene kits. A shipment
of hygiene kits is being prepared by Church World Service
<www.churchworldservice.org/haiti>
to send to Haiti. When widespread disasters occur, there is
usually a need to replenish the supply to ensure a sufficient
quantity for future disaster situations.
PRAY:
Join with others in lifting up the people of Haiti
and those seeking to provide aid in this critical time. God
of compassion, please watch over the people of Haiti, and
weave out of these terrible happenings wonders of goodness
and grace. Surround those who have been affected by tragedy
with a sense of your present love, and hold them in faith.
Though they are lost in grief, may they find you and be comforted.
Guide us as a church to find ways of providing assistance
that heals wounds and provides hope. Help us to remember that
when one of your children suffer we all suffer. Through Jesus
Christ, who was dead, but lives and rules this world with
you. Amen.
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